People are unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.
Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.
People need help but will attack you if you help them.
Help them anyway.
In the final analysis, it is between you and God.
It was never between you and them anyway.
Kent Keith, made famous by Mother Teresa*
*Kent Keith originated this poem in 1968, and Mother Teresa placed it on her children's home in Calcutta in a slightly different version. As a result, many have attributed it to Mother Teresa.
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Some quotes I like
“When I have a little money, I buy books. If any is left over, I buy food and clothes.” - Erasmus
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” – Sir Winston Churchill
"Creeds and human statements all contain inherent weaknesses, because they are framed by frail, earth-bound beings." - Michael Ashton, former editor of The Christadelphian
"Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - Henry Mencken
"The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom. " - Rav Kook, founder of the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem
"I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do, or not to do, a particular thing, he finds a way of letting me know it." - Abraham Lincoln
"We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer." - Paul David Tripp, Instruments In The Redeemer's Hands
"Show me a man who hasn't changed his mind in 20 years and I'll show you a man who has wasted 20 years of his life." - Anon
"If one does not know more of the truth at the end of one’s pilgrimage than at the beginning or the middle, then he is a poor disciple indeed." - Alan Eyre, The Protestors
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.” – Sir Winston Churchill
"Creeds and human statements all contain inherent weaknesses, because they are framed by frail, earth-bound beings." - Michael Ashton, former editor of The Christadelphian
"Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy." - Henry Mencken
"The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs." - Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The purely righteous do not complain about evil, rather they add justice. They do not complain about heresy, rather they add faith. They do not complain about ignorance, rather they add wisdom. " - Rav Kook, founder of the Merkaz Harav Yeshiva in Jerusalem
"I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do, or not to do, a particular thing, he finds a way of letting me know it." - Abraham Lincoln
"We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer." - Paul David Tripp, Instruments In The Redeemer's Hands
"Show me a man who hasn't changed his mind in 20 years and I'll show you a man who has wasted 20 years of his life." - Anon
"If one does not know more of the truth at the end of one’s pilgrimage than at the beginning or the middle, then he is a poor disciple indeed." - Alan Eyre, The Protestors
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